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My First Crash: Mike Read

Four months ago I had a major smash on the M3. I was driving a Porsche Boxster in the middle lane, doing the same speed as the other traffic in front of me and slowly overtaking a lorry on the inside lane.

I discovered later that it was a Polish lorry, which meant it was left-hand drive so the driver couldn’t see me very well. Before I knew what had happened, he began to pull out into me. Luckily he didn’t knock me into the fast lane.

I steered into a skid and my car began to turn sideways, but still the lorry driver didn’t appear to see or hear anything. He pushed me along sideways for a quarter of a mile before he finally stopped.

There was so much traffic around I was staggered I hadn’t hit anything else. I got out of the car and noticed that the